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Institutional Reform for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

An Agenda for Europe

  • Identifies an institutional framework that supports innovation and entrepreneurship
  • Outlines a European reform strategy to build a framework to enhance innovation and entrepreneurship
  • Considers diversity among European countries that affects the viability of reform
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction: Europe’s Innovation Emergency

    • Niklas Elert, Magnus Henrekson, Mikael Stenkula
    Pages 1-8Open Access
  3. Innovation, Entrepreneurship and the Complementary Skill Structure

    • Niklas Elert, Magnus Henrekson, Mikael Stenkula
    Pages 9-23Open Access
  4. Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the European Union—A Reform Agenda

    • Niklas Elert, Magnus Henrekson, Mikael Stenkula
    Pages 25-86Open Access
  5. Summary and Conclusions

    • Niklas Elert, Magnus Henrekson, Mikael Stenkula
    Pages 87-92Open Access
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 93-102

About this book

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.



The authors of this book advise the economies of the European Union to become more entrepreneurial in promoting innovation and economic growth. The authors propose a reform strategy with respect to several aspects to achieve this goal. Starting with the rule of law and the protection of property rights; the tax system; the authors deal with regulations governing savings, capital and finance, and the organization of labor markets and social insurance systems. Framework strategies related to the regulations governing goods and service markets, bankruptcy and insolvency are also put forward. A core understanding and future path is also provided towards R&D, commercialization and knowledge spillovers; human capital investments; and informal institutions. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm, Sweden

    Niklas Elert, Magnus Henrekson, Mikael Stenkula

About the authors

Niklas Elert Ph.D., is a research fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm, Sweden. He received his Ph.D. on the topic of Economic Dynamism – Essays on firm entry and firm growth in 2014 at Örebro University, Sweden. His current research focuses on entrepreneurship and firm dynamics. 

Magnus Henrekson is a professor and president of the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm, Sweden. Until 2009, he was the Jacob Wallenberg Professor at the Department of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. Since the end of the 1990s, his primary research field has been entrepreneurship economics.

Mikael Stenkula, Ph.D., is a research fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm, Sweden. His research focus is on entrepreneurship, business structures and taxation.

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